April 2009
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One of the nice things about these four-day weekends is that I have time to check out things that are of interest to me. In this case, an item in the LA Times blog notes (inter alia): Chalk it up to an over-eager marketing team at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. On Wednesday,…
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Here’s an interesting bit of synchronicity … my spiders picked up a piece in the Independent which is about Giotto’s Lamentation of Christ … the incipit, however, is rather more in the purview of this blog: There is also anachronism in viewing. We can’t help looking at pictures through our own later eyes. We see…
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Last week the details began to leak out … this week, we get some more. The incipit of a brief item from Reuters: Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes will play warring gods in “Clash of the Titans,” an Olympian epic that starts shooting later this month Neeson is playing Zeus, the wise yet sometimes ill-tempered…
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Pity I missed this … Apollo seems to have a pretty easy trip both in the Olympus and Roman divisions; I figure him against Colbert in the final New Adventures of Queen Victoria
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ante diem vi idus apriles ludi Megalensia continue (day 5) 217 A.D. — murder of the emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla) 1898 — Birth of Maurice Bowra (The Greek Experience) 1979 — death of E.R. Dodds (The Greeks and the Irrational)
rogue classicism 